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The foundational stability of schools might be our greatest strength.Getting the fundamentals right and protecting them during change efforts is essential. 

Kate Winslet donated $ 6000 in 2007 and $ 40,000 in 2008 as charity. Kate Winslet golden hat foundation is a big name in the field of charity and through it, she helps people with Autism.

"HTTPS Everywhere is a Firefox extension produced as a collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. It encrypts your communications with a number of major websites."

"Leadership 360 will examine issues affecting today's educational leaders. We will invite different lenses, always remembering that our democracy depends on the success of public education. It is foundational to the fabric of our society and the values that reveal who we are in the world. "

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What is so special about latest .net versions? Oneness has become the newest addition to the .NET Foundation's technological guiding group.

The question of what learning matters most to our students is one that I return to regularly. A fascinating range of models are available each with similar elements but presented in a slightly different manner. Most could be summarised by the 'Four C's' model outlined in 'Most Likely to Succeed' by Tony Wagner and Ted Dintersmith. Critical thinking, communication, collaboration, and creativity are vital and each plays an important role in allowing us to manage the complexity of modern day life. Beyond being relevant to success in the classroom the Four C's are the foundations of life-long learning but I question if alone they are enough. I believe we must include a fifth; compassion.

Partnership between college faculty, elementary teachers, and students.  Based on National Science Foundation 

Chad Pregracke is definitely not shying away from getting his hands dirty in the name of water conservation. Since he was 17 years old, Chad has been cleaning up trash in the Mississippi River-which happens to be his backyard-singlehandedly at first when no one seemed to care. He is living proof of the adage "leading by example." A teenager on a mission to clean up the second longest river in the United States sure makes Chad different-in a good way. After founding Living Lands & Waters Foundation, Chad has never slowed down his barge. To read more about Chad Pregracke visit www.thextraordinary.org

Stan Lee co-created the Avengers, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Iron Man and Spider-Man among many others. He redefined the comic book industry and pushed for the Comics Code Authority to reform its policies. Stan Lee made a respectable career out of being a comic book writer by making his characters imperfect so that readers could relate to them more easily. His Stan Lee Foundation focuses to increase literacy and aids under-privileged kids get quality education.

The investigations and visualizations on this site were designed to accompany Earth Science, a high school textbook authored by Spaulding and Namowitz and published by McDougal Littell. The Web site was developed by TERC, a non-profit educational research and development firm in collaboration with McDougal Littell. Funding was provided by the National Science Foundation.

Ronald Richard, President of Cleveland Foundations--speech given at Chatauqua Institution on the critical importance of innovation in schools.

Interactive game to teach students about cyberbullying: "A cyberbullying "epidemic" has hit our shores and threatens to contaminate our children through emails, chatrooms, blogs, mobile phones and social networking sites. The Bullies are nasty, highly contagious viruses that lurk in cyberspace, infecting young cyber citizens with unacceptable online behaviours.   And unfortunately, something seemingly innocent such as forwarding an unpleasant email to someone can cause instant contamination.   But help is at hand.   SchoolAid, in partnership with the Vodafone Foundation, has launched a national campaign that identifies and personifies the different types of cyberbullying behaviours, and in particular, bystander behaviour, to raise awareness of this crucial issue, while encouraging open discussion among children and adults alike."

"The National Academy of Engineering (NAE), at the request of the National Science Foundation, convened a committee of leading technical thinkers to create a list of the grand challenges and opportunities for engineering facing those born at the dawn of this new century."

Created though a partnership among the Media Education Lab at Temple University, the Center for Social Media at American University (AU), and AU's Washington College of Law, with funding from the MacArthur Foundation, the code identifies five principles of consensus about acceptable practices for the fair use of copyrighted materials, wherever and however it occurs: in K-12 schools, higher-education institutions, nonprofit groups that offer media-education programs for children and youth, and adult-education programs. 1. Employing copyrighted material in media-literacy lessons 2. Employing copyrighted material in preparing curriculum materials 3. Sharing media-literacy curriculum materials 4. Student use of copyrighted materials in their own academic and creative work 5. Developing audiences for student work

"Link TV is launching ViewChange.org - a digital media hub that highlights progress in reducing hunger, poverty, and disease in developing nations. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ViewChange.org combines powerful video stories with the latest Web technology to make videos, articles, blogs, and actions readily available to key audiences working in global development. "

Site with fascinating and beautiful statistical visualizations. "Gapminder Foundation now fills the Trendalyzer with statistical content and use the resulting animations to fulfill our aim by: * Making time series freely available in Gapminder World and Gapminder Countries. * Producing videos, Flash presentations and PDF charts showing major global development trends with animated statistics and colorful graphics. All with the intention of being a "fact tank" that promotes a fact based world view."

Assignments are conceived to be the foundation of practical knowledge for students. It very well examines whether the students develop an apparent concept considering the subject or not. Assignments reproduce the students' acquaintance that they put on throughout the college or universities classes.

Primary School is the foundation of a child's educational life. How is he/she going to perform and what kind of attitude he/she exposes towards receiving education depends completely upon the care and assistance one receives in their primary school level. So, it is the responsibility of every conscious parent to provide their kid with the best care and support during the most formative period of their life. To support them successfully and completely, enrolling them in a primary school is not the only thing you have to do. They need extensive care and only an efficient primary school tutor can create the environment which will enable them to learn, making it an extremely enjoyable act.

eLearning tools can make all the difference to most Startups. It offers nascent teams a strong knowledge foundation which helps bind them to common goals and gives them all the tools to help succeed with the company's vision.